Easeus Todo Backup Home

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Price: $39.95 (£32) a year or $59.95 (£49) lifetime licence Free trial period: 30 days What you need: Windows 7, 8.1, 10 or 11

Easeus recently released new 2023 editions of the Free and paid-for Home editions of its Todo Backup software, so now is the perfect time to decide which one is best for you.

The same updates have been applied to both programs, but these aren’t particularly exciting, other than faster backup and restore speeds, and the option to back up Outlook data to the Easeus Cloud storage service. You get a generous 250GB of free online storage in either version, so it’s not an incentive to pay for Home.

Todo Backup benefits from a streamlined interface that makes backing up files, folders and drives – or your entire system – very straightforward. Simply choose what you want to back up and where to, then click the Backup Now button. To restore a saved backup, simply click ‘Browse to Recover’. You can also compress, split and encrypt your backups, and schedule them at a time and frequency of your choice.

Those features are offered by both editions, but Todo Backup Home has several extra tools to justify its price. These include cloning partitions, drives and your operating system, and transferring a backup of your whole PC to another hard drive, a NAS or Easeus Cloud. There’s also an option called Security Zone (see screenshot), which creates an encrypted partition to keep your backups safe from malware. These tools are undoubtedly useful, but there are free programs available that perform the same jobs – and how often do you really need to copy your entire system to a new PC?